You seem like the sort of person that would pronounce the word often with a hard T, yet still pronounce the letter A as if it was an O.
You seem like the sort of person that would pronounce the word often with a hard T, yet still pronounce the letter A as if it was an O.
BenM2023@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not at all. Used to make fun of people who did.
No - there are two sounds for A, bath (short, as in cat) for tub of usually hot water and Bath (long, as in car) for the city famous for its hot water. Never heard it like O - no, wait… RP has an O sounding A doesn’t it? Lloyd Grossman was famous for his mangling of vowel sounds.
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
en.wikipedia.org/…/American_and_British_English_p…
Meanwhile, why do we pronounce cheese as cheeze?
Who threw the Z sound in there?
BenM2023@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeh cheese as cheeze is an odd one - especially considering the z is “zed” not “zee”… I guess cheese is where the idea of “zee” came from?
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Additional question…
Who decided to include the letter D in the pronunciation of the letter Z?
Zed?
Where did that come from? We don’t say it that way over here in the states, we just say zee…